bluebruce

I'm becoming of a mind that if someone wants to pay a lot for him it will be a bit of a Roque situation...ie a good move to sell and the player never hitting that form again. I'd want a nice sell on just in case though. Not that I'm mad at his second half of the season form, it has been heavily disrupted by a combo of injuries, Chile, and the rest of the team suddenly being shite.

He will be at a Premiership club next I expect. Has a bigger profile and done a better job at Derby than Lampard did (relative to the circumstances) and that was enough for him to land a top job. Not how it should be at all, as he hasn't proven enough as a manager yet, but how it very likely will be because of his rep as a player. I'd be 50/50 on whether to have him here, not been in management long enough to gauge, but done a good job at Derby and his profile would help attract players.

Saw a replay at the time. Not the perfect angle to tell, but yeh he looked offside when the ball was played, just not when it arrived.

They should have been ahead at half time. Luckily our last ditch defending was mostly decent today, but they came at us so many times.

They weren't even the worst side today. We were abysmal.

Being impressed by his stats, if that claim is even true, doesn't mean he was signed on that basis alone. I'm sure he was watched too. Regardless, I'd summarise his career with us so far as, started shite, got better, was decent for a spell, thought we actually missed him when he was out, and has been trash again since returning.

Unfortunately, we aren't. The league might be full of very average teams, but we have become a below average team.

At least he is. We need the remaining holdouts to get on board, only way this manager gets pressured into fucking off.

Let's be honest, we didn't even deserve the point we came away with today.

Where do you get the notion he was signed based on stats?

I'd say it was before kickoff tbh. If we can't dispatch Blackpool at home at this point, we have no chance of closing the gap.

Blackpool. Blackpool. Blackpool. And Blackpool.

Seems beyond speculative. A better explanation for me is he is just yet another woeful and inconsistent Championship ref. Occam's Razor and all that.

Most of them do these days.

Who would have told him that?

Aye, at that point I was of a mind to sell him too, after previously thinking we should refuse. Sounds like either the owners vetoed it or Bournemouth dropped out (think their plan was always more about unsettling us than signing him).

With hindsight, aye. He hasn't been much use since, so I'd rather have had the money and bought a replacement. At the time it was a 50-50 kinda decision though. If he could keep his dedication and focus up, keeping a key part of a winning team seemed the better decision than upsetting the formula. But he has done no such thing.

C'mon Dack, sort this lot out. We haven't been able to string two passes together in the final third this half.

Uh yeh I think he had one, but I'm hard pressed to say which. Bit of a needle in a shitstack situation.

Well that was predictable. In fact I literally predicted it as the corner was being taken.

Oh it'll be because he is getting bummed repeatedly on the flank. Hope that clears it up.

We need to make it to half time ahead, Blackpool keep coming.

Needed taking off last match too, but instead Giles got blamed for not being what Tony wants him to be, a right winger. Blame seems to have continued as he is still sat on the bench today whilst Pickering proves a liability again. Don't get your hopes up about him being taken off.

Well tipped there Kaminski.

They're targeting Pickering's flank.